Bird school

• Brambling
• Blue tit
• Bullfinch
• Blackbird
• Barn swallow
• Bohemian waxwing
• Black woodpecker
• Black redstart
• Blackcap
• Chaffinch
• Chiffchaff
• Crow
• Coal tit
• Crested tit
• Common swift
• Common treecreeper
• Dunnock
• Fieldfare
• Greenfinch
• Goldfinch
• Greater woodpecker
• Garden warbler
• Great tit
• Green woodpecker
• House martin
• House sparrow
• Hawfinch
• Jackdaw
• Linnet
• Long-tailed tit
• Lesser whitethroat
• Lesser spotted woodpecker
• Marsh tit
• Magpie
• Mistle thrush
• Nightingale
• Nuthatch
• Pheasant
• Pied flycatcher
• Redpoll
• Rook
• Redstart
• Robin
• Spotted flycatcher
• Siskin
• Starling
• Song thrush
• Yellowhammer
• Winter wren
• Willow
• Tree sparrow
• Wood pigeon
• White wagtail
• Willow tit
• Whitethroat

The Nuthatch

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The male

The nuthatch has the unique ability to climb both up and down a tree trunk.

Appearance
A heavily set bird with a relatively large head and a long, straight chisel-shaped beak and a short tail.

Similar bird
The only bird that can climb head first down a tree. The woodpeckers are black and white.

Sounds and song
Its call is piercing, and the song is usually heard in the spring; fast and repetitively or deep.

Food and bird tables
Common guest at the bird table.
Will eat insects, pupae, larvae and spiders, and seeds and nuts in the winter.

The nest and hollows
It is the female alone who builds the nest from flakes of pine bark placed on a bed of wooden chips. While she broods she is fed by the male. The nuthatches (even the young birds) are rather stationary – as far as is known, the old birds never leave their territories and the young birds never travel far from their birth place.